School’s out for pint-sized star

Harrison Gilbert has been filming on set in Manchester for the last six days, juggling this with starting school last month.

Katie Upton

Harrison Gilbert is only four-years-old but he’s already learning about juggling work with play.

The youngster has landed himself a part in an upcoming BBC drama, starring alongside the likes of Philip Glenister, from Life On Mars, and Titanic’s Daniel Rigby.

Having only just started at Blackpool Gateway Academy he has taken time off from his learning to spend six days filming on set for From There To Here, to be aired in 2014.

Proud mum Fiona Gilbert, of Lunedale Avenue, South Shore, said: “It’s a great experience for him. He says ‘I’ve got a job now like mummy and daddy’. In the morning he asks ‘is today a school day or a work day?’”

The drama will be aired in 2014 and follows the aftermath of the IRA bombing of Manchester’s Arndale Centre in 1996 through to the beginning of the Millennium.